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73. Phlegopsis nigromaculata (Lafr. et D'Orb.) 



Myothsra nigromaculata Lafresnaye & D'Orbigny, Syn. Av. i. in Mag. Zool. 1837. cl. ii. p. 14 

 (Guarayos, Eastern Bolivia). 



No. 705. c? ad., 26. v. 06. " Iris reddish brown, skin round the eye light red, 

 feet and bill black."— Wing 93 ; tail 61 ; bill 22 mm. 



No. 900. ? ad., 25. vi. 06. u Iris dark red, bill and feet black."— Wing 88 ; 

 tail 60 ; bill 21 mm. 



The two specimens agree perfectly with others from Bolivia and north-eastern 

 Peru (Ucayali) except in being a shade more brownish on the upper parts. In the 

 male the tail is uniform chestnut rufous, and the bend of the wing largely mixed 

 with white ; while the female has no white at all on the shoulder, and a narrow, but 

 very distinct, lanceolate black shaft-streak on all the rectrices near the tip. 

 Neither of them shows white spots on the nape. 



These birds are very distinct from P. paraensis,* of Para, of which I have now 

 examined eight specimens. The back is very much paler, light yellowish or greyish 

 olive-brown (instead of warm rufesceut brown); the black spots are very much 

 larger and not margined with cinuamomeous at the tips; the greater wing-coverts 

 have broad blackish shaft-stripes which reach almost to the base of the feathers, 

 while in P. paraensis there are only .large oval snbapieal spots surrounded by a 

 pale cinuamomeous line ; the flanks are considerably paler, being pure olive-brown 

 (not rufescent brown) ; the bill is much stronger and the tail decidedly longer. 



This is apparently the first record of the species for Brazil, but I suspect that 

 the specimen from the Bio Jnrua, recorded by von Ihering,t s.n. Phlegopsis 

 nigromaculata bowmani, will also turn out to belong to the true P. nigromaculata. 



P. bowmani Bidgw., to which I refer four specimens from Boiba, j differs from 

 the Teffe birds principally by having the wing-coverts much brighter, of a fine 

 golden olive, and by the black markings on the back and wings being transverse 

 instead of longitudinal. 



74. Forniicarius colma Bodd. 



Formicarius r„l,„a Boddaert, Tabl. PI. e»l. p. 44 [1783— e.x Daubenton, PI. ml. 703, fig. 1 (= ?ad.) 



— Cayenne]. 

 Fnrmicariua nigrifrom auct. (cfr. my revision of S;,ix' types, p. G20). 



No. 834. S juv., 15. vii. 06. " Iris dark brown, feet brown, bill black."' 



75. Formicarius analis analis (Lafr. et D'Orb.) 



Myothera analis Lafresnaye et D'Orbigny, Syn. Av. i. in .!/»;/. Zool. 1837. el. ii. p. 14 [Turacares 

 et Chiquitos (Bolivia)]. 



No. 795. cJ in moult, 10. vi. 06. '• Iris and feet brown, bill black." 



Differs from a Peruvian specimen (( 'hanchamayo district) by its much stronger 



bill, darker brown pileum and darker, more slate-grey abdomen. Topotypieal 



Bolivian birds are not available for comparison. 



* Orn. MonaUber. xii. 1004, p. 53. 

 f Revitta Slut. Paul. vi. p. 4 3. 

 I Or it. MonaUber. xii. I i i|. ;> "I 



